No person in control of any hotel, inn, apartment house, roominghouse or lodginghouse, or the letting of any suite, room or bed in any thereof to any person or persons in the city shall let or assign any suite, room or bed in any thereof to any person until after such person shall have registered his name and address in the register herein provided to be kept, and thereafter such register shall be made to show correctly the year, month, day and hour of the arrival of such person thereat and the number of the suite or room let or assigned to such guest; and such person in control of such inn, hotel, apartment house, roominghouse or lodginghouse, or the letting of any suite, room or bed in any thereof shall, at the time of the departure of each guest, endorse upon such register the date of such departure, nor shall any person erase or alter any name or address written in such register. (Ord. 1142 § 1 (part), 1961).